Wednesday, September 3, 2008

My work here is done.




Watched The Dark Knight again today (a friend hadn't seen it yet), and something stood out to me.

Joker drops Rachel out the window. Batman leaps out the window and grabs her. They land on the taxi and have their moment.

Then, Harvey Dent storms into the police station jail.

Ummmmm... last i saw, there were a half-dozen armed men, one of whom is a sociopath, and they're in a room with a couple hundred of the richest people in the world, looking for a man who happens to be unconscious behind a conspicuously-barred door. Looking for Harvey Dent. And the only person who can stop them has just flung himself out of the building.

It's a bit of a loose thread.

Now, admittedly, the pacing carried me along enough the first two times that i didn't even notice this. But especially when you know in advance that people are going to be watching your movie a half-dozen times or more, don't you want to avoid that sort of structural dropout?

I can't set a default, so choose your own adventure.